Staff Q&As: Meet sports reporter Jim Seip

To help you get to know our newsroom staff a bit better, a series of question-and-answer posts with each journalist will run on Mondays. This morning, meet sports reporter Jim Seip. You might have read his articles on the York Revolution or his posts on Revs’ Inside Pitch — he’s covered the franchise since its first game in 2007.

Name: Jim SeipLives in: State of denialHometown: Gratz, PAPosition at the YDR: ReporterYears with the YDR: Depends on what you mean by YDR? Forced transfer from the York Dispatch to YDR on May 5, 2004, but working at York newspapers since Nov. 2002Graduated from: Bloomsburg UniversityWith degrees in: History, mass communicationsTwitter:@jimseipFacebook:Search for Jim Seip

1. What made you want to become a journalist? A bad case of food poisoning

2. How do you see journalism changing? Less smoking/drinking in the press box

3. What do you like most about your job? The least? All those great perks, like free pens; the quality of the free pens

4. It’s 9:30 a.m. on a day off. What are you doing? Sleeping or looking for coffee

5. What’s been your favorite project or story recently? Why? Filling out mileage, all 27 steps